Worlds made by words
scholarship and community in the modern West
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Author
Publication
2009 - Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
105,500 words, Guess
Page Count
422 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveworldsmadebyword0000graf
- ISBN-139780674032576
- ISBN-100674032578
- Goodreads6353761
- LibraryThing8072571
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- Library of Congress Control Number2008041248
- OCLC Control Number256767520
- Better World Books9780674032576
- Open LibraryOL22551998M
Classifications
- DDC940.1
- LCCCB245 .G65 2009
- LCCCB245.G65 2009
Description
"In this book Anthony Grafton lets us in on one of the great secrets of scholars and intellectuals: although scholars lead solitary lives in order to win independence of mind, they also enjoy the conviviality of sharing a project sustained by common ideals, practices, and institutions. It's like Masonry, but without the secret handshakes. Grafton reveals the microdynamics of the scholarly life through a series of essays on institutions and on scholars ranging from early modern polymaths to modern intellectual historians to American thinkers and writers."--Jacket.
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